[WIARC] antenna work

[Michael Nowack]

Danny

I went by Red Cross yesterday. The dipole was rehung with the pully in place. The loose rope on the roof peak is still there but now laying on the building roof. Not hanging down  

Mike

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> On Aug 29, 2016, at 8:37 AM, Danny Pease <dpease at adams.net> wrote:
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> Thanks Dave,
> 
> At the last meeting, NR9Q said he would be available the last week of
> August. We talked Saturday and he told me to pick a  day and ask for help,
> based on the weather forecast I looked at Sunday, Thursday looked like the
> best morning. Chris will climb the tower but we will need some ground
> support. I plan to be there and I hope at least a couple of others can make
> it as well.
> 
> With the downed end of the dipole has been reinstalled, we may have to have
> a way to lower both ends of the OCF dipole to attach the wires to the new
> balun, we will for sure if the feedpoint is lowered more than a  foot or so.
> We also will need whatever hardware it will take to attach the wires to the
> new balun, ring lugs (if so, what size?) and I suspect the current balun has
> a crimp ferrule to hold the cable to provide strain relief, we will need to
> figure out the best way to do that and what we will need to do it. 
> 
> If a pulley was not installed on the east end of the dipole when it went
> back up, we might want to think about adding one so that we do not need a
> bucket truck every time we want to lower that end of the antenna.
> 
> We also need to remove whatever it is hanging off the south end of the Red
> Cross building, which means a way to get up there.
> 
> Thoughts?
> 
> Danny
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dave Soncek [mailto:dss2609 at comcast.net] 
> Sent: Monday, August 29, 2016 5:16 AM
> To: Danny Pease
> Subject: Re: [WIARC] antenna work
> 
> Danny
> 
> The OCF dipole is back in service.  We need someone to climb tower and
> install new matching balun and the choke.
> 
> Dave
> 
> WA9GBC
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Danny Pease
> Sent: Sunday, August 28, 2016 3:34 PM
> To: wiarc at mailman.qth.net
> Subject: [WIARC] antenna work
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> A recent storm in Quincy took down one end of our wire antenna at the Red
> Cross. We have a chance to get our antenna work accomplished this week and
> looking at the weather forecast, it looks like Thursday morning may be our
> best bet. Anyone that can help this coming Thursday about 9:00 AM, please
> let me know. I don't think it will take even 2 hours as long as we have
> everything we need on hand.
> 
> 
> 
> Thanks
> 
> 
> 
> Danny NG9R
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